what?

A. Account Sunday law, because we was selling Sundays beer that we
could not sell unless you belonged to that organization. You will have
the police after you all the time. I suppose you know that as well----

Q. Did you ever contribute?

A. Well, we had to contribute at times--yes, sir. There would be a
different way to contribute.

Q. Did you ever give money to the organization?

A. No, not to the organization.

Q. Or to the police?

A. There is a different way of doing that. If you didn't do it
willingly of course there would be a way. They will be around one of
those nice Sundays and arrest you and naturally there will be two there
and they will impress a charge against you in a manner that will get
you out in case you paid them. I have been doing that several times,
gave each one five dollar bill or ten dollar bill and they won't press
the charge.

Q. This money was to be used for what purpose?

A. That I could not tell.

Q. The men that came around on that mission were they police officers
or politicians?

A. Well, regular officers, specials, what takes these Sunday----

Sheriff Arnold:

Mr. Zabel, did anybody here send for a man named Moss?

Mr. Bloodgood:

Yes. Send him in.

Q. Did you ever contribute anything to the Republican campaign fund?

A. No, sir; I had no reason.

Q. Was ever any contribution solicited of you by Tammany Hall or by the
Police?

A. No, sir.

Q. Now isn't it a fact that a good deal of your feeling against
Roosevelt was created by what you read in the papers?

A. It was not created, no, sir.

Q. Well, was it to a large measure influential?

A. I could not just deny that it had some influence but not to be
decisive.

Q. Not decisive.

A. No, sir.

Q. Didn't it make you feel angry and unfriendly?

A. Not any worse than what I was.

Q. Didn't make you feel any worse or more unfriendly?

A. No, sir.

Q. Toward Roosevelt?

Mr. Bloodgood:

Q. How long have you been reading the New York Herald?

A. Oh, I believe since I am able to read.

Q. And the World?

A. Also.

Q. Now you said the other evening that papers you principally read were
those two--was that correct?

A. Correct.

Q. Now did you read them during August of this year. You were in New
York then?

A. Yes, sir.

Q. And state what impressed you in particular--what you saw in the New
York Herald in August--at about that time of the formation of the new
progressive party in